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...schools say, "It's all about fit. It's not about finding the best university. It's about finding the university that's right for you." And so there's this polite fiction that every university is right for some student, and every student is right for some university. Well, that's just not true. (Watch TIME's video "Can She Save Our Schools...
...Attorney Michael Sullivan, whose office prosecuted the "shoe bomber," recalls no discussions about designating Reid an enemy combatant and doubts that the legal mechanisms to do so were even in place at the time. But had the shoe-bomb attempt occurred a few years later, Sullivan says, Reid might well have ended up facing a military tribunal...
...wanted to evaluate this guy in the flesh. The fact that al-Balawi wasn't given even a rudimentary security screening speaks to the credibility he had built up over time, feeding valuable information to Jordan's General Intelligence Department, a trusted CIA partner. "This was an extremely sophisticated, well-thought-out operation," a former senior intelligence official told me. "It took years to set up. And quite frankly, we didn't think al-Qaeda had that capability." (Several intelligence sources told me they thought the operation was run out of the al-Qaeda high command - Osama bin Laden...
...Pakistan's border region and sent out feelers to jihadi militants, "he was very helpful, and the CIA were grateful to him." This source tells TIME that al-Balawi pinpointed several al-Qaeda targets, which were attacked by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and that "al-Balawi was extremely well paid." (See pictures from the July 2009 U.S. offensive in Afghanistan...
...flesh out the systemic failures that allowed Abdulmutallab to board the plane to the U.S. with explosives allegedly sewn into his underwear. But intelligence gathering, in this case, didn't seem to be the problem. In fact, that system functioned exactly as it was meant to - indeed, perhaps too well. It's clear now that there were multiple signs in recent months that Abdulmutallab was a potential risk, but they were simply lost in the unmanageable flood of information the U.S. intelligence and security agencies are designed to produce. Obama himself nodded toward this problem after meeting with security officials...